The last time I checked, it was more a problem of lacking servers with sufficient resources: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T124960 https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T219078

It sure doesn't harm if someone creates their own ZIM files and reports on their results (and/or shares the resulting files).

Agreed. I can see that other Wikipedia languages are crawled - https://wiki.kiwix.org/wiki/Content_in_all_languages shows dozens of updates this week - but the best leads I have involve poking around the openZIM Github org, https://github.com/openzim . There might be a running "zimfarm" somewhere?

You can build your own ZIMs from any MediaWiki instance using this tool: https://github.com/openzim/mwoffliner.

Maybe it would be worth putting together another zimfarm that is constantly updating.

Looks like you are right, you may be able to join the farm to help ( i have not tested as I am away from my computer at the moment )

https://github.com/openzim/zimfarm/blob/master/worker/README...

Someone should ask drone.io or packet.net for an Epyc machine to do this.